I ran into a semi-bug in Igor’s 7zip’s command line application. I used a “\*.*” as the source and the “-r” argument for an archive I wanted auto generated via a script. 7zip skipped all of my empty directories. Once I changed the “*.*” to a single “*” everything worked as it should. So single… Read More »
Thanks MS! https://connect.microsoft.com/site14/content/content.aspx?ContentID=12463&http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=217606 You have to grab it using your Live ID, but its free and plentiful with updates. Major update is that it deploys Windows 8 now! But here is the rest of the bells and whistles.. Support for Configuration Manager 2012 RC2: This update provides support for Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 releases.… Read More »
http://www.tweaknow.com/BestFreeApps.php I agreed with all of the applications listed in this site, other than their MS Office alternative. Im a loyal OpenOffice man myself. (http://www.openoffice.org/) I also scower this site when searching for alternatives to expensive software packages. Just the other day, it helped me locate a great mind mapping freeware application. Lastly, I… Read More »
Updated 2012-May-14: Found subinacl did not work on Windows 7 x64. Found superior working tool (SetACL.exe) from the following site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/setacl/files/. I confirmed it worked and updated the script accordingly. This sample script utilizes a Microsoft tool “subinacl.exe”. This can be downloaded and extracted using 7-zip or equivalent (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23510). It uses this tool to take ownership of a… Read More »
Just two simple scripts I wrote up to disable number lock on Windows 7 and Windows XP. They import the Default hive and then set the InitialKeyIndicator setting to “0”. Win XP Script: On Error Resume Next ‘==========VARIABLE ASSIGNMENTS========================= Dim objFSO, objShell, sCurPath Set objShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) strCommand = “reg load HKLM\defhive “”C:\Documents and Settings\Default… Read More »
